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Someone is threatening me to file a DMCA with my host, over a "Recent Activity" Mod, that I rewrote completely. It is a free. The functionality is only similar.

Also over the style of the site, this person and I started the site together, everything was implicitly said to belong to the domain. I owned the domain, then this person, decides to brake up and start a whole new site, he has taken all our users, posts, threads, personal data, everything. I recreated the original site then.

I changed the style background, parchment, header, etc. And he claims the style is his.

1) competition breeds innovation, and ideally a better range of options for the end user
2) agree
3) I guess I should remove my vbulletin 4 subscription importer then as its based off paul m's importer? It depends on the situation
4) Agree

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Someone is threatening me to file a DMCA with my host, over a "Recent Activity" Mod, that I rewrote completely. It is a free. The functionality is only similar.

Also over the style of the site, this person and I started the site together, everything was implicitly said to belong to the domain. I owned the domain, then this person, decides to brake up and start a whole new site, he has taken all our users, posts, threads, personal data, everything. I recreated the original site then.

I changed the style background, parchment, header, etc. And he claims the style is his.

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1) competition breeds innovation, and ideally a better range of options for the end user
2) agree
3) I guess I should remove my vbulletin 4 subscription importer then as its based off paul m's importer? It depends on the situation
4) Agree

1) Valid point and I think it is fine to create a competing product but I still think Etiquette wise you should not explicitly copy features and ideas from another product to make yours...
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3) No the situation I meant, I totally agree depends on the situation and it is more an Etiquette thing than right/wrong I think if you base your works of someone elses who has not explicitly released it as Open Source then you should first contact the original author and check they are happy with this!
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I Don't know, ideas can be taken from ideas but I mean when they are explicitly copied... For example xenforo is a forum software just like IPB and vBulletin and though they have many features the same, after all they are all forum software, the way that different features look, work and act is what makes them different... if xf where to explicitly copy functionally of another forum software even if it were written from scratch then this would be very bad in my opinion... However having similar features or ideas is what competition is about...

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I Don't know, ideas can be taken from ideas but I mean when they are explicitly copied... For example xenforo is a forum software just like IPB and vBulletin and though they have many features the same, after all they are all forum software, the way that different features look, work and act is what makes them different... if xf where to explicitly copy functionally of another forum software even if it were written from scratch then this would be very bad in my opinion... However having similar features or ideas is what competition is about...

ragtek

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If i see a add-on which i could use, i check the code and install it on my test boards.

If it's fine and i see something what's missing, i'm requesting it in the thread, because everything coded by others means less coding & support time for me and i can spend the time with other things....
If it's a small request, i'm coding it as extra add-on for my board, till (if) the coder includes it....

If the add-on is bad(for example horrible code, very bad performance), i'm coding it from scratch for my boards.
Then i ask the original coder( because of Etiquette ), if it's ok for him, if i release my version here too.
I respected all coders which said no, because every new release means much more support time, but on the other side, i wanted(i stooped it now) to share as many addons as possible with the community here, so the users could move to xenforo as soon as possible..